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difference_closed_contours_xld — Compute the difference of closed contours.
difference_closed_contours_xld(Contours, Sub : ContoursDifference : : )
The operator difference_closed_contours_xld calculates the difference of the regions enclosed by the contours Contours and Sub. The boundaries of this difference are returned in ContoursDifference.
If the individual input contours are not closed, they are closed automatically by connecting their start and end points.
Internally, first, the regions enclosed by each set of contours (Contours and Sub, respectively) are determined as described below. Then, the difference of these two regions is calculated.
In the following, the two sets of input contours are referred to as boundary sets. A boundary set consists of an arbitrary number of boundaries (the individual contours of Contours and Sub, respectively). Each boundary may be convex or concave and self-intersecting. Internal holes may be formed by the nesting of boundaries.
The region enclosed by such a boundary set is defined by the so-called Even-Odd-Rule. Thus, it consists of all points with the following property: The line constructed by connecting the point with another reference point that lies outside of the region has an odd number of intersections with boundaries.
More descriptive, this means that a boundary defines a hole in the region enclosed by another boundary if it lies completely inside that region. Similarly, the overlapping area of two separate boundaries of one boundary set is taken as a "hole", i.e., it does not belong to the region enclosed by the two boundaries. Note that the region enclosed by a boundary does not depend on the orientation of the boundary.
A self-intersecting boundary may be split at the intersection point or it is reordered such that it touches itself at the intersection point. The resulting boundaries are treated as separate boundaries.
The resulting boundaries ContoursDifference are automatically classified into boundaries that enclose regions and boundaries that enclose holes. This information is stored in the global contour attribute 'is_hole'. For boundaries that enclose holes, the global contour attribute 'is_hole' is set to 1. Otherwise, it is set to 0.
Note that subsequent points whose row and column coordinates differ by less than 1e-06 pixels are considered as one point.
Contours enclosing the region from which the second region is subtracted.
Contours enclosing the region that is subtracted from the first region.
Contours enclosing the difference.
difference_closed_contours_xld returns 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if all parameters are correct. If necessary, an exception is raised.
gen_contour_region_xld, zero_crossing_sub_pix, threshold_sub_pix
intersection_closed_contours_xld, symm_difference_closed_contours_xld, union2_closed_contours_xld, difference_closed_polygons_xld
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